Tony Jones

Alistair Can't say that I agree with you about spelling and grammar checkers. I earn my living as a technical writer and journalist and run everything through mine as a matter of course. As you amusingly point out they won't pick up 'knot' when it should be 'not' or 'smell' when it should be 'spell', etc, etc. It's down to the writer in the end. But a lot of the errors I see in these magazines most definitely WOULD have been picked up by a wood smell and granny checker - if it had been employed. I stick with my criticism of the DX7 flight test. The factors that the writer considered might affect its performance are entirely irrelevant. I wonder if most readers appreciate that contributors - particularly kit reviewers - are usually friends of the editor, don't get paid anything for their efforts and have clearly had no training. If you get monkeys when you pay peanuts, what do you get when you pay nowt? A load of waffle usually.

I am the only one to feel that ALL British aeromodelling magazines are poorly written, riddled with bad grammar, spelling mistakes and typographical errors (no excuse for this whatsoever in these days of spell checking word processors) and very poorly designed compared with most consumer magazines? Not to mention in craven hock to their advertisers to the extent of publishing manufacturers' press releases verbatim in the editorial pages. The editor of RCM&E apparently believes (see product review of the Spektrum DX7 on page 50 of the April issue) that radio waves are affected by air temperature/humidity, whether it is overcast or not, the month of the year, the state of the flying field surface and even the county in which he is flying . He also describes this trial of a new radio system in an IC model as 'surely the ultimate test'. So he is also unaware that the most severe test of airborne radio gear is provided by powerful electric models. I despair.

I am the only one to feel that ALL British aeromodelling magazines are poorly written, riddled with bad grammar, spelling mistakes and typographical errors (no excuse for this whatsoever in these days of spell checking word processors) and very poorly designed compared with most consumer magazines? Not to mention in craven hock to their advertisers to the extent of publishing manufacturers' press releases verbatim in the editorial pages. The editor of RCM&E apparently believes (see product review of the Spektrum DX7 on page 50 of the April issue) that radio waves are affected by air temperature/humidity, whether it is overcast or not, the month of the year, the state of the flying field surface and even the county in which he is flying . He also describes this trial of a new radio system in an IC model as 'surely the ultimate test'. So he is also unaware that the most severe test of airborne radio gear is provided by powerful electric models. I despair.